Grain and flax attachment for binders



I June 9, 1925."

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Patented June 9, 1925.

WILLIAM JOHN KENNEDY, OF R-OSETOWN, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

GRAIN AND FLAX ATTACHMENT FOR BINDER/S.

Application filed December 29, 1923. Serial No. 683,387.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM JOHN KnN- NEDY, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of the town of Rosetown, in the Province of Saskatchewan and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain and Flax Attachments for Binders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in attachments for binders, and more particularly to that class of attachments adapted to act as a sheaf and flaxholder to be attached to a grain binder.

The objects of the invention are to pro-' vide a simply constructed and efficient attachment of this kind that car. be readily fastened to a binder and so constructed that the several parts will more efficiently perform the various functions required of them.

Further objects are the provision of a sheaf and flax holder attachment that can be quickly adjusted on a binder machine, and by means of which more satisfactory results can be obtained in harvesting.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists essentially in the novel arrangement and construction of parts described in the present specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawings that form part of the same,

Referring now to the drawings in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure:

Figure 1 is a planview.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of my device attached to a binder machine. Figure 8 is a detail of the supporting member.

In the drawings, A indicates a binder and B my improved attachment comprising a main supporting member preferably of wood, 10, pivotally connected at its inner end to a metal loop 11 adapted to embrace the bar 12 of the binder and to be adjustably secured thereon by means of the butterfly screw 13. Adjacent the other end of the member 10 and on one side is fixedly secured, and substantially at right angles thereto, a branch supporting member 1a preferably, as here shown, of band-iron. This band-iron member is suitably bent at 15 in substantially semicircular form and carried back acrossthe front of the member 10 in substantially semicircular form to be then further bent to engage with the side of the member 10 opposite to the other side of the member 10 at 16, the whole forming a length of band-iron having one end fixedly secured substantially on one side of the member 10 and substantially midway of the length thereof, the loose end being first extended horizontally and then bent back-- wards to cross the front end of said member 10 and to engage in hooked formation with the other side of said member adjacent the other end. This band member is provided with suitable orifices spaced from one another and through which extend the tines 17 designed to hold sheaves of grain from the discharge platform, as shown in Figure 2. F or flax, instead of the tines, or in combination therewith, I use a band-iron mem ber 18 formed with orifices adapted to receive tines, this circle member 18 being fixedly secured at each end on the side of the member 10.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of my invention, within the scope of the claim, constructed without departing from the spirit or scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the accompanying specification and drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

What I claim as my invention is:

In a binder, a sheaf and flax holder attachment comprising a main supporting member pivotally mounted on the binder, a band iron having orifices therein rigidly secured at each end on opposite sides of the supporting member and intermediately bent to extend transversely of the end of the supporting member to form a carrier, a plurality of tines extending through the ori fices in the band iron, a second carrier on the supporting member and at right angles to the first mentioned carrier and comprising a band member having orifices therein secured at each end to the supporting member and intermediately looped, means for adjusting the supporting member, and means to secure the band irons to the supporting member.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

IVILLIAM JOHN KENNEDY.

W'itnesses W. T. Corr Lnw, M. E. KNOX. 

